How Charlie Graeber works 🖊
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Charlie Graeber writes books that take years and hundreds of interviews to produce — The Good Nurse, The Breakthrough, and the projects he's working on now. It's the kind of journalism where what a source actually said matters precisely, where some conversations can't go anywhere they shouldn't, and where the recording has to work the first time because the interview won't happen again.
He uses Alice.
Being able to be disorganized sometimes, or rushed, and still capture what I need — I'd say this is the greatest asset Alice has brought to my work.
— Charles Graeber, author of The Good Nurse
His current project is on unsolved murders — hundreds of interviews, often with unwilling sources, in settings where pulling out a notebook would shut the conversation down. Alice captures everything; from there, transcripts go into NotebookLM so he can search across the whole body of work while keeping every fact traceable to the source it came from.
A few things from his workflow that other reporters, researchers, and writers keep asking us about:
- Security that doesn't get in the way. Alice was built under guidance from writers at Wired, the New York Times, ProPublica, and Politico — people who, like Charlie, can't afford to have a sensitive interview wind up in someone else's training data. No third-party training. No propagation. Recordings stay yours.
- Reliability in difficult settings. The iPhone app keeps recording through dropped networks, incoming calls, and locked screens. Long-form work doesn't tolerate dropped audio.
- Transcripts that hold up. Speaker labels, timestamps, accuracy, good enough that editing takes minutes instead of hours.
The full write-up — what Charlie records, how he organizes it, how the transcripts end up in his books — is here →
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Founder, Alice
